Two crashes near Veterans, Iles

Springfield police were called to two traffic accidents Thursday near Veterans Parkway and Iles Avenue within a span of five minutes.

None of the four drivers involved in the two unrelated crashes were injured.

The first was reported at 1:25 p.m. as Kirt E. Holder, 34, of the 2300 block of South College Street was heading north on Veterans and stopped for a red light at Iles. When the light turned green, traffic moved forward and then suddenly stopped. Holderís car struck the back of the vehicle in front of him, which was driven by Vanessa Hasan, 33, of Fuquay-Varina, N.C.

Four minutes later, at 1:29 p.m., police received a report of a second accident on Iles near the entrance to White Oaks West, just west of Veterans Parkway.

Victoria Durham, 65, of the 1200 block of North Oak Lane Road was eastbound on Iles and stopped at a red light, when she said her wet boot slipped off the brake and hit the accelerator. Her car rear-ended a sport utility vehicle driven by Julia Pezold, 47, of Ashland.

Holder and Durham both were cited for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.